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• Preceden - The Easiest Way to Make a Timeline
  Preceden is a free web application that lets you make timelines.
• 2009 Video Fellows best practices for video assignments
  Planning on giving your students a video assignment? Here is a great primer on how to set up a video project for students. With assignment examples and rubrics. From Duke University.
• Powerful Learning Practice, LLC
  PLP is a professional development model that immerses educators into environments and practices that allow them to learn and own the literacies of 21st Century learning and teaching.
• Online Video Editor - EditorOne Mashup Maker | Ideum
• TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration!
  Instance of Etherpad, hosted by Chris Prillo. More at http://chris.pirillo.com/better-than-google-docs-etherpad-alternatives/
• EduFeedr
  Promising looking project ind evelopment. EduFeedr is an educationally enhanced feed reader for blog-based courses.
  
  Also see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22965114/EduFeedr-%E2%80%94-Redesigning-the-Feed-Reader-for-an-Open-Education
  
  and https://wiki.mozilla.org/EduFeedr_Blueprint
• Cell phones in the classroom - O'Reilly Radar
  The research was funded by mobile company Qualcomm, but still interesting to se the results that "classes using the smartphones have consistently achieved significantly higher proficiency rates on their end of course exams."
• Coop's Word on EdTech / Video
  Nice list of video resources, including some online video editing services
• Catching the Google Wave by Bill Brandon: Page 2 : Learning Solutions Magazine
  I've found this as well
  
  “Waves need to have a specific focus, otherwise it’s just a chat, and there are better mediums for that.”
  “Waves that don’t have a specific focus need roles to help manage the threads.”
  “Waves need maintenance. Stuff can be consolidated/deleted/cleaned. It’s a collaboration tool – people have to work/negotiate with each other.”
  “By virtue of sharing something in a wave with others, the default expectation is that someone WILL edit what you say. It is not an authoring platform to exchange ideas. It’s a platform to converge ideas.”
  “Facilitated/hosted waves need organization, maybe even design or Wave “templates.” Much like #lrnchat (Editor’s Note: running discussions on Twitter about learning) is organized with a warmup question and three ensuing questions, maybe a good wave needs to use blips or wavelets as conventions for certain types of group discussion or group work.”
• Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
  Many students, teachers, instructional technologists, and administrators consider the LMS too inflexible and are turning to the web for tools that support their everyday communication, productivity, and collaboration needs. Blogs, wikis, social networking sites, microblogging tools, and other web-based applications are supplanting the teaching and learning tools previously found only inside the LMS.

I’m blogging my Masters. Here’s my latest post

• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end August 10, 2009